We’ve just been taking in all the news of Charley’s devastation on the rest of Florida after passing us here, leaving us pretty unscathed. While it was ok and even a little therapeutic for us to have some fun with the storm yesterday, we are now sobered with the reality that this was a VERY serious storm. People are dead, homes and businesses are destroyed, more than 2 million people are without utilities, lots of people are injured and much more. And talk about irony, many of those poor people who were evacuated from here and Tampa ended up getting pounded by the storm at the locations they evacuated to!
While we thank our lucky stars we didn’t get hit with Charley’s full strength, we are absolutely saddened at what ultimately happened with Charley north of us. It doesn’t help that our family and friends live in Daytona and Orlando, two of the places that Charley hit with bullseye precision. Even at this time, I don’t know if my parents, brother, niece and nephew are left homeless or worse, since communications are impossible. I can only hope for the best. We’re going to try to get the boat to Mexico tonight or tomorrow so we can get Andiamo hopefully out of the way of any further storms this season has yet to bring. But I have a feeling I’ll be having to fly back to Florida not long after we get there.
Just hoping for the best.